Anatoly Berger’s first book, “Defendant Songs,” was published in 1990. Before perestroika, the name of the poet, convicted in 1969 for his works under Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation), was banned. Chilled Constellations is Berger's twelfth book. Here are selected poems - from the sixties to the present day (by decade), prose - stories, memoirs, the short story “Fiery Arrows” about the love of Vladislav Khodasevich and Nina Berberova, “Sudden Notes”. The play “Moralite about Orpheus” was written in 1968, the action in it was transferred from antiquity to the Middle Ages, where the singer, naturally, was arrested, and the KGB officers of the sixties of the twentieth century considered this an allusion to our days and, also naturally, included “Moralite” in the “corpus delicti”, the second play “Posthumous Remark” was written already in the nineties, in it the poet, considering the version of the authorship of Shakespeare’s works, raises a topical topic forever - about authorship and imposture. The book concludes with the articles “The Fate of a Russian Poet in Emigration on the Example of Vladislav Khodasevich”, “The Pen of Eternity” about the phenomenon of Fyodor Tyutchev and “Autobiography”. When designing the cover, a fragment of the painting by the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897–1994) “Evening Train” (1957) was used .)